Hi all as a few of you have had m3s im after some info just been to look at 1 and the oil light was flashing had a wavey line under it is this normal as it sounded nice but this worried me

 

think the wavey line one is the level? did the oil temp gauge work?

 

Wasnt driving mate so cant say as said stayed on for about 30 secs then stayed off

 

yep,just been outside and checked. oil pressure light is at the top of the dash along with the battery light. the low oil level light which is the one with the wavy line under it is in the row of lights along the bottom of the dash. hope he didn't give it any hammer from cold,you need to wait till the oil and water temp are well up before giving it any. takes about 15 minutes of driving to get properly warm.

 

So its just a oil temp gauge stroke leval gauge not presure and no he drove it nice till it went out

 

probably oil level sensor needs replacing, iirc around the £90 mark

 

still selling well the old m3's , i rung one today and asked a bit about it , rung back 3 hours later and he'd sold it . i was gutted lol

 

These are serious bargains IF you can afford to run one. Much more than just petrol, it was £30k+? new and still costs the same to run as a brand new m3.

People dont realise this, they buy one for £3k and wonder why its going to cost them £2.5k in parts to fix

 

will be a sensor. if it has oil in it, then it just faulty, very common too.

 

don't cost that much to fix mate.can get most bits from euro car parts and the like.

 

Wrong!, go back and do your homework before giving the lad shit advice. the old straight 6 e36 engine is as expensive as the new V8 ? the old 5-6 speed manual boxes in them are as expensive to fix as the SMG Paddle shift Auto boxes in the new E90 ones? Realy.....

 

The new E9*'s are still under warranty so yes.

One word. VANOS.

 

one word for you...clueless.

 

exactly what i was thinking!

 

mines never had vanos issues at all. i have every receipt from new and it's now on 161000 miles and still makes book bhp on the rollers.

 

pmsl, well said.
this is the same as hearing about cossies blowing head gaskets, only when not maintained or faults not fixed.

 

Vanos issues are another one of those things that gathers credibilty due to word of mouth and the internet imo ive known a few people with M3's that have never had a single issue with this! As far as i know as long as the car has been maintained properly vanos isnt an issue!

 

same buddy, i had two, one of them had 165k on it and no probs whatsoever!! As soon as there is a couple of people that have had the problem and it cost a wee bit word of mouth blows it out of proportion, me and the bigyin were talking about this exact same thing a few days ago!